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    15 hours ago

    This phrasing always bothers me a little, because, as even the article quotes a scientist saying: “All colors are made up by the brain.”

    Purple is special because it triggers from non-continuous wavelengths of light, not because the subjective experience of purple is an invention of the brain. Being ‘invented’ is something common to all colors. Or sounds. Or tastes.